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Take a look at my reply to @whykhr regarding the cost and variability. Could you refer us to the evidence that supports your claim on worker accidents in comparison to coal and hydropower? Certainly coal mining has a very high rate of accident and death, so this seems like a surprising claim to me.

This is very expensive energy. And unreliable, intermittent. With 3 hrs storage it may supply energy for 1/2 the day, they still need energy the other 1/2 the day, especially in the evening. So $1.2B for a lousy 143 MW net peak. At a hopeful CF of 25% that's $33k per kw of avg electricity. That is even more costly than expensive solar PV.
Instead they could have built four 1.4GW APR-1400 Nuclear Reactors from South Korea for $20B like the UAE is doing. That's $4.0k per kw avg electricity, only 12% the cost per unit energy of the solar. Sufficient to supply 100% of Morocco's electricity supply, 24/7, night/day, summer/winter, sandstorm/calm/volcanic eruption, no need to export or storage. And twice the land area of the lousy 143MWe solar plant for 160X the electricity. That's zero CO2 electricity, much cleaner than the solar. And they can use the waste heat from the reactors for desalination of seawater, utilizing surplus nighttime electricity & heat.

whykhr I think of nuclear power as the best way to quickly leave fossil fuels behind, producing large amounts of power without emissions, but that we should eventually start replacing it with renewables in the future. What are your thoughts on this? The only problem is the time-consuming nature of installing new power plants, both in terms of logistics and red tape. It doesn't take any time to slap a wind turbine or solar panel somewhere. Whatever gets rid of petrol the quickest is what I'm behind so I'd like to see a "race" between new-generation nuclear plants and renewables take place.

As for why I support nuclear power and I'm against ALL energy scams, lies, myths, devious actions by Big Oil disinformation propagandists who love Oil Wars, Pipeline Wars, Petrodollar Wars, death and destruction, mass murder, evil deeds by greed-crazed evil people who don't give a damn about the good people of the Earth or the health and well-being of the Earth's ecosystems. Rape-And-Pillage is their motto and clean, plentiful, sustainable Nuclear Energy is their arch-enemy. They love wind & solar scams, because they know very well wind & solar = continue the status quo of burn-baby-burn.
I'm not against renewables, hydro and geothermal are good, they are just severely limited by geography, solar and wind are good in some applications and that's fine. But renewable as a whole cannot replace fossil, not even close, and we need to replace fossil, and we need to get at that seriously now. Only nuclear can replace fossil. In fact NUCLEAR ENERGY IS THE ONLY fully scalable, sustainable clean energy solution.
Like Jim Hansen, George Monbiot, James Lovelock and many others I am a rational environmentalist and care about the health of the Earth and its People. I could less about the health and wealth of the ultra-rich Bankster/Oil Barons who invented this Natural Gas/Wind/Solar Bait-And-Switch scam. And I don't get one penny from Nuclear anything. Why doesn't anyone ever question the motives of wind & solar propagandists who are really Big Oil sycophants, the Controlled Opposition?

It is really great. Hopefully it's not only at Morocco but all of the world can obtain such amazing CSP. The more people who are care to this Earth the more sustainable it will be. Go 2020. Very Inspiring..

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